County Clerk has birth and death records from 1853<br>Marriage and land records from 1799 and probate Records<ref name="Handybook" />

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County Clerk has birth and death records from 1853<br>Marriage and land records from 1799 and probate Records<ref name="Handybook" />

== History ==

== History ==

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==== Cemeteries ====

==== Cemeteries ====

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#Indian Creek (1792)<ref name="baptist">Robert Baylor Semple and George William Beale, ''A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia'' (1810; reprint, Richmond, Va.: Pitt and Dickinson, 1894), 421. Digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=t6RhTC8ziQQC Google Books].</ref>

#Indian Creek (1792)<ref name="baptist">Robert Baylor Semple and George William Beale, ''A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia'' (1810; reprint, Richmond, Va.: Pitt and Dickinson, 1894), 421. Digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=t6RhTC8ziQQC Google Books].</ref>

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Monroe County fell within the bounds of the Greenbrier Association.

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Monroe County fell within the bounds of the Greenbrier Association.

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==== DNA ====

==== DNA ====

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'''Bibliography'''

'''Bibliography'''

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*'''[Bean]''' Beane, Fannie B. ''William Bean of Monroe County and His Descendants.'' St. Albans, W.Va., 1988.

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*'''[Bean]''' Beane, Fannie B. ''William Bean of Monroe County and His Descendants.'' St. Albans, W.Va., 1988.

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*'''[Long]''' Beane, Fannie B. ''William Bean of Monroe County and His Descendants.'' St. Albans, W.Va., 1988.

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*'''[Long]''' Beane, Fannie B. ''William Bean of Monroe County and His Descendants.'' St. Albans, W.Va., 1988.

*Hudgins. [http://www.directlinesoftware.com/pool.htm 335 patents dated 1774-1858 in what is now Monroe County, West Virginia placed on a map]. DeedMapper.&nbsp;[Names of those who received land patents, dates, land descriptions, and references may be viewed free of charge (click "Index" next to the county listing); however, in order to view the maps, it is necessary to purchase Direct Line Software's [http://www.directlinesoftware.com/ DeedMapper]&nbsp;product.]

==== Local Histories ====

==== Local Histories ====

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==== Military ====

==== Military ====

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Monroe County men served in the 75th Regiment.<ref>Stuart Lee Butler, ''A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812'' (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., 1988), 145. {{FHL|669440|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 M2bs}}.</ref>

Monroe County men served in the 75th Regiment.<ref>Stuart Lee Butler, ''A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812'' (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., 1988), 145. {{FHL|669440|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 M2bs}}.</ref>

Local Histories

The standard local history of Monroe County, West Virginia is Oren F. Morton's A History of Monroe County (Ruebush-Elkins Co., Dayton, VA, 1916). It is available as a reprint, and is also up at: Google Books.

Maps

Military

Revolutionary War

A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at U.S. Census Bureau and Google Bookset. al. 1967 reprint: FHL Collection 973 X2pc 1840. [See Virginia, Western District, Monroe County on page 135.]

War of 1812

Turk, David Scott, The memorialists : an antebellum history of Alleghany, Craig and Monroe counties of West Virginia, 1812-60 (Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, c1997) page 168 FHL Book 975.5 H2

Civil War

Regiments. Service men in Monroe County, West Virginia served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Monroe County, West Virginia:

Naturalization

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

At first glance, researchers might conclude that Virginia tax lists contain very little family history data, though one soon learns that valuable genealogical conclusions can be drawn from these records, nicknamed "annual censuses," such as: relationships, approximate years of birth, socio-economic status, identification of neighbors, the ability to distinguish between persons of the same name, evidence of land inheritance, years of migration, and years of death.

Virginia began enumerating residents' payments of personal property and land taxes in 1782. These two types of taxation were recorded in separate registers. Personal property tax lists include more names than land tax lists, because they caught more of the population. The Family History Library has an excellent microfilm collection of personal property tax lists from 1782 (or the year the county was organized) well into the late nineteenth century for most counties, but only scattered land tax lists. Microfilm collections at The Library of Virginia include land tax lists for all counties and independent cities for the years 1782 through 1978, as well as personal property tax lists for the years 1782 through 1930 (and every fifth year thereafter). Taxes were not collected in 1808.

Some tax records are available online or in print, though published abstracts often omit useful details found only in the original sources. Statewide indexes can help genealogists identify specific counties where surnames occurred in the past, providing starting points for research.[9][10]

Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at FHL. [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Monroe County is included in Vol. 5.]

References

↑ Robert Baylor Semple and George William Beale, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia (1810; reprint, Richmond, Va.: Pitt and Dickinson, 1894), 421. Digital version at Google Books.